Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...